"Since James Gunn's Superman became the biggest superhero movie at this summer's box office, the world has been waiting to find out what the rest of the DCU sandpit will look like. Now, with the debut trailer for Supergirl, we have our first proper glimpse. On this evidence, the new Kara Zor-El lives in a brave new universe of gods and monsters that reflects her loneliness and fury right back at her."
"Milly Alcock's woman of tomorrow may not be like anyone we've seen on big or small screens before which is impressive given how often Supergirl has been wheeled out over the decades. Helen Slater's 1984 version is now widely regarded as a kind of sun-bleached Reagan-era artefact a well-meaning but terminally camp experiment. Sasha Calle's Supergirl in the recent The Flash looked soulful, angry and potentially gamechanging."
"The new film is heavily aligned with Tom King and Bilquis Evely's 2021-22 miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. In the comic, Kara does not arrive on Earth as a baby she is sent off after the infant Superman with the explicit job of looking after him once she arrives, but her mission fails catastrophically and she is left to watch Krypton die in front of her eyes."
"We know from the comic that the film will see her reluctantly enlisted by a young alien girl, Ruthye, who is seeking revenge for her murdered father. This is likely to drag Kara into a grim vendetta wherein godlike powers offer no clear moral advantage, and being the strongest person in the room turns out to be the least useful skill she has."
Milly Alcock’s Supergirl presents Kara Zor-El as a 23-year-old who appears older, battle-scarred, and emotionally hardened. The film draws heavily from Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s 2021–22 miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, adopting its variant origin where Kara is sent after the infant Superman and witnesses Krypton’s destruction. Trailer tone and imagery place Kara in a dark DCU of gods and monsters, emphasizing loneliness, fury, and self-destructive coping such as hard drinking. The plot involves a young alien, Ruthye, recruiting Kara for a revenge quest that forces moral ambiguity where vast power yields no simple solutions.
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